Its Labour Day today so we had a long weekend, which was awesome.
The highlight of this weekend is catching up with my girlfriends over high tea…it was my first time and i must say i really enjoyed it.
My lil girl came with me to join the girls while the boys stayed home and chill…

The food was amazingly presented…these lil bite size munchies looked soo yummy!
I must say tho, when i first saw it i didn’t think i was gonna get full eating those dainty size food but it was actually quite filling.
I had a boring English Breakfast Tea, but the other girls were more adventures and tried the more interesting tea.

My lil girl certainly enjoyed the morning, and so did we….im really glad we decided to catch up,
its been a while and this just reminded me that we should really do this more often.

Anyway, here are some of the pics i’ve taken from our High Tea, and i just have to say that they are really as yummy as they look…

Vivien’s Honeydew Green Tea

Winnie’s Lavender Grey Tea

my lil girl trying a sip of my tea, i asked her to lift her lil pinky like how it should be done when you are drinking tea…but she was having none of it….LOL

I think this one is either Karen’s Trim Latte or Viv’s Mocha…

actually i think this one is Karen’s…if im not mistaken, so the above must be Viv’s….lol

my girl looking longingly out the window before she pleaded for me to let her play outside the cafe…

and she made this awesome little bracelet from her hairclip and Aunty Viv’s comb….how cool is that?

and copying Aunty Karen applying her lip-gloss from her i-Carly cellphone with mirror & lip-gloss inside LOL

being silly with Aunty Sarah & Aunty Karen…

and lastly, of course we polished off all the food…that lucky last mini muffin went to my lil miss…

yup that’s right peeps, my baby boy turns 7 months old today…so of course i had to post some new pics as he changes constantly.
Its so true what people say to me about the difference between raising boys and girls…their personality is so different (but that was to be expected)
and i can already tell that he is going to be a handful when he reach toddler-hood, whereas his sister was so laid back (i think we strike it lucky with her lol)

Logan reaches his milestones differently from Claudia, at 7 months he still cannot sit unsupported yet whereas Claudia sat up at 5 months
and was already bum shuffling at 7 months. However Logan rolls over earlier at 4 months whereas Claudia didn’t reach that milestone until
she was 7 months old.

Logan loves to squeals and babble, he is so vocal at expressing his needs, whereas Claudia was so laid back she was happy to just chill
and wait until we do things we need to do for her. Logan has just started to notice his toes now and his favorite position while on the floor
was lifting his legs up and reaching up to his toes. He also have 2 teeth and starting to really enjoy having his solids.

So here is my boy at 7 months old…

dare we say that Spring is actually here?
im a bit worried that as soon as we say it we’re gonna jinx it and get the horrible weather again…LOL

anyway, i know i promised to post some photos from the Spring Festival, so now that i have a spare few minutes
im gonna share some gorgeous tulips pictures from the botanical garden the last time we went.
They were in full bloom and so beautiful….and they add a wonderful splash of colours all over the garden…
i really wish we can see them more often than just a few weeks in a whole year…

just wanted to share some recent pics of my cute snow bunny…
i had to bundle him up in the warmest and snuggliest jacket he has seeing how cold it was yesterday…the wind chill made
the temperature dipped to 1 degree and its suppose to be Spring! yikes! i think winter still trying to snuck-in every now and then…

anyway, i knew i had to wrap him up nice and warm when i have to take him outside, specially since he is still recovering from bronchitis
i have to be extra careful not to expose him to the cold weather…not that i can help it seeing that i have to drop off and pick up his sister
from school everyday, so regardless what the weather is like i have to bring him out with me. But dont worry i also made sure the pram cover
is on to shield him from the cold & the wind, so i think he was nice and toasty inside the pram when i took him out for a walk.

Anyway so I took some quick snaps of him in his cute bunny jacket….here is my cute snow bunny (coz it looks like he was ready to brace the snow LOL)

one of my fave quote from Storypeople:
“there has never been a day i have not been proud of you, I said to my kids, though some days i’m louder about other stuff so its easy to miss that…”

and today i want to say something about that, mainly because i feel that these days i always seem to be yelling
or growling (like my daughter would say) about one thing or another…so i just want to take one day to say
how proud i am of my daughter and how much i appreciate her in my life…

this morning as i struggle to wake up i saw Claudia slide into bed beside me because daddy has just gone to work…
she was already armed with her writing pad and her glittery pens at 7am in the morning.
i managed to squint and lift one eye open as i saw her scribbling into her writing pad.
as i was dozing off she touched my shoulder and ask me “mummy i made a song for you, do you want me to sing it?”
i was still half asleep so i said “that’s nice honey, but Logan is still asleep so can you please wait until we go downstairs
then you can sing it to me while we have breakfast…”

about half an hour later i finally gave up my attempt to catch a quick snooze and we went downstairs for breakfast…
of course she wasted no time to sing me her song which she created specially for me….and do you know what the song is about?
its about how much we wanted to complete our family with her having a brother and she wrote in the end that now we’ve got a family…
isn’t she the most thoughtful, loving and talented lil girl?

her other fave thing is of course is making cards and drawings…our house is full of them.
she uses a LOT of papers and usually her creations involves almost an entire roll of sticky tape (cello tape) but of course
those cards and drawings meant a lot to her so we have to keep it safe (along with a gazillion other stuff that she makes daily LOL).

I know shouldn’t complain because it is very sweet to have your daughter showers you with attention and showing how much she loves us…
like yesterday when she came home from the park with nana with a handful of flowers picked specially for mummy…
awww, seriously sweet rite? btw, if anyone asked who is that kid that keeps on picking random flowers in the park,
just act like you know nothing of it… LOL

and get this, sometimes when im tired and i complain that my body is sore she offered me a back rub to make me feel better….
if only daddy is quite that forthcoming with his back rub offers! LOL she put a lot of effort to her back rub too,
she even uses my massage oil and doing the little chopping motion at the end.
“howz that feel mummy? do you feel better now?” she asked after a couple of mins. ”
“ohh that feels so much better sweetie, thank you so much!”
come one now, what mum in the world is not touched with her daughter’s thoughtfulness like that?

she also gave me another thoughtful gift the other day….made specially of a toilet paper roll and cotton buds,
surely by now you cannot deny her creative talent….and she also made a drawing of our family eventho her proportion size
might need adjusting a bit because for some reason a picture of Logan is somewhat bigger than hers
and seeing that Logan is still a baby a lot smaller than her you can say the picture is a bit misleading LOL

Yes, there is nothing like a gift from your child to remind you that it really is the little things and the thought that counts.

check out the song she wrote this morning about our family…

and these are our collection of cards, drawings, notes that she made for us from all around the house…

the drawing she made of us and her toilet roll creation…lol

and of course we can’t forget the flowers she hand-picked specially for mummy…

this last note was for my mum…Claudia wrote it a couple of weeks ago and she wants us to mail it to Oma, but god knows how long it takes
to send mails to Jakarta these days, so im taking a picture of the note specially for my mum so she knows how much Claudia misses her…

I know i have missed a few days of blogging…it is mainly because of the school holiday as i have no time for anything else but the kids,
however it is also because i just re-opened my Etsy shop again and i have a few hat orders that i have to do,
so im trying to get those orders out in my spare time (been knitting furiously lol), which is usually after the kids are in bed for the night….
that time is my downtime that i usually use for blogging and uploading photos, but now i have to divide it evenmore
between uploading photos, making hats and quality time with hubby….so needless to say im behind on blogging again.

But don’t worry, eventho i didn’t get a chance to update the blog, i have been keeping my promise and still taking daily photos.
Ijust dont have the time to download them from my memory card, edit and upload them or update my blog as often as i would like….

Anyway, so we finally had a decent weather over the weekend after a whole series of crappy weather…
so we decided to take advantage of the fine weather and went to the Spring Festival in the botanical garden over the weekend.
The tulips were in full bloom and was soo beautiful….i took some tulip photos of course which i will post a bit later or maybe tomorrow
if i get some free time to download the photos from my memory card and upload them here.

in the mean time…while we were in botanical garden over the weekend we saw a Tree Climbing Competition for kids,
which was one of the school holiday activities that the City Council have going during the Spring Festival.
Along with the competition, there were people there who were teaching newbie kids on how to climb a tree properly
with safe rope and proper harness. After observing a few kids having a go at learning how to climb, Miss C decided she wanted to give it a try,
luckily i have my camera with me so i took some snaps….we were impressed that she was brave enough to climb pretty high up…

oh and btw, these pictures were damn hard to take in a full sun as well as dappled light underneath the tree so there are a lot of harsh shadows
and blown highlights….but i dont care, i have mommy goggles on when i took these coz we were so proud of her, she was very brave
and we were impressed that she have the guts to do it as it was pretty high up (specially for me coz im petrified of heights! lol)
and most importantly we were glad that she had a great time.

getting ready to climb…safety first, so she has to put the harness and making sure the rope is secure…

being taught how to handle the rope…

making sure everything is safe and secure before the climbing start…

okay so here we go….being hoisted up first…

a bit higher…

and she is off….

now she is trying to go back down…

going down is easier than climbing up…

just like a pro at handling the rope now….lol

almost there…

and…touch down! yay…isn’t she brave?!